{"id":612261,"date":"2022-04-26T09:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T13:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=612261"},"modified":"2022-04-26T09:22:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T13:22:59","slug":"manchester-city-predicted-lineup-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/26\/manchester-city-predicted-lineup-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City Predicted Lineup v Real Madrid for April 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/24\/manchester-city-forward-exit\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City<\/a> face <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/25\/antonio-rudiger-and-real-madrid-agreement\/\" target=\"_self\">Real Madrid<\/a> at the Etihad Stadium in the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League. Pep Guardiola and his team will hope to make it to back-to-back <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/19\/manchester-city-in-europe-champions-league-success\/\" target=\"_self\">Champions League Finals for the first time in the club&#8217;s history. <\/a><\/span>In this piece, we look at how a Manchester City predicted lineup could be along with the latest betting odds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3 \u201cNowadays it is completely different. Today Real Madrid are the one that have to be concerned about facing City\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Carlos Tevez insists City can enter our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#UCL<\/a> semi-final clash with Real Madrid full of confidence! \ud83d\udcaa\u2b07\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/1518226979325202434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Manchester City Predicted Lineup Against Real Madrid<\/h2>\n<h3>City Full of Confidence<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Citizens <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will go into this game full of confidence after a convincing 5-1 victory over <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/02\/10\/ismaila-sarr-return-watford-boost\/\" target=\"_self\">Watford<\/a> in the Premier League. Guardiola will likely stick to his trusty 4-3-3 formation. One of Kevin De Bruyne, Phil Foden or Bernardo Silva will be expected to play in the false nine position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">City are unbeaten at home in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/19\/manchester-city-in-europe-champions-league-success\/\" target=\"_self\">Champions League<\/a> this season. The home team will be without key man Jo\u00e3o Cancelo for the first leg as he is suspended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will be a massive test for the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sky Blues <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who were recently knocked out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/18\/2022-fa-cup-final-tv-livestream-details\/\" target=\"_self\">FA Cup<\/a> semi-finals after suffering a 3-2 loss to Premier League title rivals, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/20\/manchester-united-scouts-leave-club\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guardiola\u2019s team will have to be aware of Real Madrid\u2019s main threats, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/03\/15\/cristiano-ronaldo-co-showing-that-30-is-the-new-20\/\" target=\"_self\">Karim Benzema<\/a>, Luka Modri\u0107 and Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Manchester City Injuries<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The home side could also be without English duo Kyle Walker and John Stones. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/13\/manchester-city-injury-update-walker-de-bruyne\/\" target=\"_self\">Walker is yet to appear for City since picking up an ankle injury against Atletico Madrid<\/a>. Centre-back Stones is also a major doubt after suffering a hamstring injury against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/03\/05\/brighton-toby-collyer-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<\/a> last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/manchestercity\/news\/pep-guardiola-reveals-two-major-manchester-city-injury-doubts-ahead-of-real-madrid-clash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City boss Guardiola suggested it will be \u201cdifficult\u201d<\/a> to get both defenders fit for the first leg. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if Kyle [Walker] will arrive, and John [Stones] will be difficult too,&#8221; said the Spaniard after Saturday\u2019s victory against Watford.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Predicted Manchester City Lineup<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manchester City\u2019s predicted starting lineup: Ederson, Ake, Laporte, Dias, Zinchenko, Rodri, Silva, De Bruyne, Jesus, Foden, Sterling.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Current Odds<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The current odds for the game are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Man City win 1\/2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Draw 4\/1\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real Madrid win 32\/5<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"mrKw8FwrTwhZB0U2I1l_-Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1393641013\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'mrKw8FwrTwhZB0U2I1l_-Q',sig:'2qkEs8EyHLtypnqcacBgIC6tv1irp35S6vrElLjFYj4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1393641013',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City face Real Madrid at the Etihad Stadium in the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League. Pep Guardiola and his team will hope to make it to back-to-back Champions League Finals for the first time in the club&#8217;s history. In this piece, we look at how a Manchester City predicted lineup could be along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4123,"featured_media":612296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[378,2,17,3,1366,1831],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-champions-league","category-featured","category-manchester-city","category-premier-league","category-real-madrid","category-starting-line-up"],"modified_by":"Jordan Hackett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}